Next Week @ TC - 17th August 2018

To the TC Community,

We need your votes!! Here @ TC we are looking to create a Sustainability Innovation Centre. We have applied for a grant and have been selected for the voting stage. Please follow the instructions below as we look to get as many votes as possible for our project that will include our own plastics recycling facility as part of a centre in which TC students will continue to learn, and teach others, around the area of Sustainability and Innovation.

Dyslexia Friendly Learning Information Sessions - Back by Popular Demand

TC Charitable Donations Request by a Student

Young Carers Program

The Mango Fundraiser is back

Parent and Student Workshop - Organisation and Time Management

Student Feedback Survey taking place over the next two weeks

Request for Donation of Warm Clothes

This Weeks Announcements:

Subject Selections Can Now Be Made Online!

We have now opened the 2019 subject selection database, please log in to submit your initial preferences for next year. Students can find the selection database by navigating to their ILP via the self-service portal and then clicking on the subject selection tab on the left.

All subject selections are due Friday 31st August

If you have any issues or questions with subject selection please come and visit the RC staff.

Pick My Project - We Need Your Votes

TC wants to build a Sustainability Innovation Centre. Vote for our Project to help us secure $200,000 to make it happen!

Sports Update

Please see attached flyer for an upcoming Sexuality and Respectful Relationships Seminar on Tuesday 4 September 2018. This event will be delivered in partnership with YMCA Manningham Youth Services as part of Manningham Council’s Parenting Seminar Series.

This seminar is a great opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the social issues faced by young people today in relation to sexuality and respectful relationships, and to improve skills in navigating the sensitive topic of sexuality with young people.

A keynote presentation with Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives from the iMatter Program and Family Planning Victoria.

This session is suitable for young people to attend with their parents.

Subject Expo ran very successfully during the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 8 August, and it was fantastic to see so many members of our community asking staff and current students questions about the range of subjects on offer. If you missed this event, the Subject Handbook contains pathway information and detailed descriptions of all TC subjects. The handbook and other supporting documentation can be accessed via Compass or found here: https://tc.vic.edu.au/learning/.

Jenny Herbst, the TC Careers Counsellor, has also put together a list of helpful online tools that you may wish to explore with your child as they research future options and complete their course planning with their SSDP mentor.

We have our Student Parent Teacher Conferences taking place in Weeks 5 and 6. These Term 3 conferences are perfectly timed for discussions involving appropriate 2019 subject selections. This is especially relevant in Maths and English as teacher recommendations for your child’s 2019 Maths and English subjects will be released via Compass on Monday 13 August.

Appointments for the conferences can be booked using Compass. For further information please see the FAQs attached below.

PLEASE NOTE: Parents can now book conferences with SSDP mentors. Thank you for the feedback.

Sports Update

Science Week!

Next week (13-17 August) is National Science Week and we have a bumper week planned!

All parents are invited to come down to see our Science Showcase on Thursday while you are here for the parent teacher conferences. There will be displays of student work, some hands on activities for people of all ages and the voting of the annual Science Photography competition as well as the new FAB my Labcoat competition.

Previous Weeks Announcements:

We have our Student Parent Teacher Conferences taking place in Weeks 5 and 6. These Term 3 conferences are perfectly timed for discussions involving appropriate 2019 subject selections. Appointments for the conferences can be booked using Compass from today. For further information please see the FAQs attached below.

Health Resources Wall - From one of our Students

"As part of an individual SSDP project, a wall of health resources has been created outside of the careers office- right near the front office. This wall is here for you. Whether you are staff, a student, a parent, or simply just a visitor. We created the wall as we want to ensure you are able to access all the information you want to. We want to ensure you experiencing good health and wellbeing, and hope the resources on this wall will help you to achieve that.

The informative flyers, fact sheets and brochures on this wall will be swapped out every month- and you can request specific things! If we don’t have it already, we will do our best to find it.”

Dyslexia-Friendly Learning @TC - back by demand

On Wednesday 15 August 2018 we are running two sessions for dyslexia-friendly learning in the PAC Area. Session 1 begins at 2.30pm and Session 2 begins at 5.30pm.

Session 1 is a repeat of the initial pilot session that was delivered in June 2018; this focuses upon how to empower oneself to achieve highly at TC and is available due to high numbers not being able to be accommodated

Session 2 is a planned progression where the speaker will be sharing very specific learning strategies so students with dyslexia-type learning challenges can overcome learning barriers and achieve well at TC

These sessions provide an opportunity for an external visitor to work alongside students with dyslexia and dyslexia-type challenges to enable them to understand how they can learn more effectively and then achieve well despite distinct challenges of a text-based special learning need.

The visiting speaker is a dyslexic who has achieved well at school using some very specific strategies and these will be shared so all can practice how to use them with support and guidance before then using them at TC.

If you (or your child) are interested in this workshop please RSVP by email to mdal@tc.vic.edu.au

Places will fill quickly, so please endeavour to have RSVP’d by Monday 6 August 2018.

For further information, please also contact Matthew Daly using the aforementioned email.

TC Charitable Donations Request by a Student

I am organising a trivia night fundraiser at TC for The I CAN Network, and I need your help! "The I CAN Network is driving a rethink of Autism, from ‘I Can’t’ to ‘I CAN’. They mentor young people on the Autism Spectrum to live life with an ‘I CAN’ attitude." It was founded by Chris Varney, who is on the spectrum, and encourages a positive mindset in thinking about ASD. In order to get the night up and running, I would greatly appreciate donations of auction and raffle items for the night, such as unique memorabilia, holiday getaways, and gift items. You and/or your business will be mentioned on the night and will be given a certificate of appreciation, and even better, you will be supporting a wonderful cause!!

We are organising a date very soon, so stay tuned! We cannot do this without your help and support.

Young Carers Program

Merri Health offers a great service for young people that engage in a carers roll. This can be any student that helps look after someone with a disability, mental illness, drug or alcohol dependency or is frail aged. It can be a parent, sibling, relative or friend.

Mango Fundraiser

PARENT AND STUDENT WORKSHOP - Organisation and time management

PAC Thursday 16 August

The importance of organisational and time management skills for students

Parents and students are invited to attend this workshop which focuses on understanding what time management really means, why it is important and the need for students to actually ‘see time’; and learn tips and strategies to ensure students also understand and can implement this and other skills for success at school and in life.

Other topics covered include:

understanding the role organisation plays

homework process, environment and plans

the study cycle

procrastination and managing distractions

mindset.

Ensure good habits are established in the 2018 school year and that your child has the necessary skills to maximise their potential.

REQUEST FOR DONATIONS OF WARM CLOTHES TO HELP SSDP PROJECT TO DONATE TO THE HOMELESS

A message from some of our students: As part of our SSDP Project we are collecting warm clothes to donate to the homeless. We have a clothes rack and a box in the RC so that people can put their old clothes there. If you have any warm clothes that you would like to donate, please drop them off at the RC. Thanks.